Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

lung health and way of life

It is becoming more and clearer that lifestyle choices have a significant impact on lung health. Lack of antioxidative components, for example, can make it harder to control inflammatory processes. Nutritional deficits can hinder lung expansion and favour infections.

Disorders like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are impacted by inactivity, which is frequently coupled with obesity (COPD). Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS), a condition whose incidence has progressively increased over the past decade across all EU countries as a result of both improved awareness of the illness and the rising prevalence of obesity in general, is also caused by obesity. In the coming ten years, the overall illness burden in Europe will increase as a result of the considerable cardiovascular and metabolic effects of OSAS.